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Craterostigma is a genus of shrub-like flowering plants in the

Type species: Craterostigma plantagineum  Hochst. Flora 1841: 669. (1841)



Linderniaceae/Scrophulariaceae

The word 'craterostigma' comes from two Greek words, krateros meaning cup-shaped and stigma, part of the female reproductive part of a flower.

c Holst, Flora 24, 2. Teill: 668 1841, fischer trop.subtrop. Pflanzenw. 81, 85-126 1992 rev

c. linearifolium Engle

c hochst. flora 24, 668 1841 perennials, stems reduced or elongate. leaves in basal rosette or in pairs along the stem, entire flowers few in the axils or bract-like leaves or crowded in small terminal heads or rarely solitary. Calyx tubular, 5 lobed, lobes subequal, ribbed or winged, shorter than the tube. Petals tubular, 2 lipped, adaxial lip concave, entire or notched; abaxil lip 3 lobed; lobes broad, subequal. stamens 4; adaxial pair adnate to abaxial lip with a swollen appendage at the base of the filament; anther lobes divaricate. ovary 2 locular; style elongate, often curved and persisting in fruit; stigma 2 lipped; capsule oblong, included with the sepals, 2 valved.

20 species: tropical and s Africa and Madagascar. Mostly herbs of wet places, some species such as c monroi S Moore, C. gracile Pilger and C.linearifolium Engler are frequently found submerged. his genus is very similar to Lindernia

There are fourteen other species of this genus in Africa, including one which extends to Arabia.

Species

 * Craterostigma alatum Hepper
 * Craterostigma hirsutum S.Moore
 * Craterostigma lanceolatum (Engl.) Skan
 * Craterostigma longicarpum Hepper
 * Craterostigma plantagineum Hochst.
 * Craterostigma pumila Hochst.
 * Craterostigma purpureum Lebrun & Touss.
 * Craterostigma smithii S.Moore
 * Craterostigma wilmsii Engl.

Note: only species listed as 'Accepted' by The Plant List.

Other sources

 * Fischer, E. et al. 2013. The phylogeny of Linderniaceae - The new genus Linderniella, and new combinations within Bonnaya, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Micranthemum, Torenia and Vandellia. (Willdenowia) 43:221-223.